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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off

Wow. I am not sure what to say. To say these people are better off than before the storm hit?
I have never been a fan of Barbara Bush. Al Franken's descriptions of how she treated him in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right is hysterical. He thought she was joking with him by being incredibly rude and then he found out from reporters that she has a reputation for being an incredible bitch.
Don't blame George Sr. for all the affairs that he has had.
September 7, 2005
Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."
Mrs. Bush toured the Astrodome complex with her husband, former President George Bush, as part of an administration campaign throughout the Gulf Coast region to counter criticism of the response to the storm. Former President Bush and former President Bill Clinton are helping raise money for the rebuilding effort.
White House officials did not respond on Tuesday to calls for comment on Mrs. Bush's remarks.